The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania
Author: Sally Falk Moore
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
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The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania
Author: Sally Falk Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-03
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1315309475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chagga and the Meru are related peoples living on the rich banana-grove and coffee-plantation slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru in Northern Tanzania. While the literature on the Chagga is overwhelmingly large little is generally available on the Meru. This volume, originally published in 1977, provided for the first time a concise, comprehensive and well-documented overview of Chagga society, history and cosmology, drawing not only on the authors’ field work but on the works of the prolific Germans: Gutmann, Raum and others. It also detail original research and uses reports of the famous Meru Land Case to illuminate Meru society and economy and their adjustment in turn to Arusha, German and British colonial, and independent government influences.
The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania
Author: Sally Falk Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781138233515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotated Bibliography on the Chagga -- Part II: The Meru of Northeastern Tanzania -- Nomenclature and Groupings -- History -- Demography -- Population -- Nature of local settlements -- House types -- Linguistic Data -- Vernaculars -- Extent of Swahili -- Physical Environment -- Economy -- Means of livelihood -- Division of labour -- Land usage and system of tenure -- Crafts -- Trade -- Labour migration -- Social Organisation and Political Structure -- Kinship and social groupings -- Alliances: vashili va rika (age-set leaders) -- Slavery -- Law -- Warfare -- Governmental changes -- Religion -- Beliefs -- Rituals -- Witchcraft-sorcery -- Life Cycle -- Birth -- Initiation -- Marriage -- Burial rites -- Other Distinctive Cultural Features -- Art -- Music -- Dance -- Calendar -- Material culture -- Major Changes since the beginning of the colonial period -- Annotated Bibliography on the Meru -- Index to Whole Volume
The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania
Author: Robert B. Munson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0739177818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania explores the relationship between the region’s environment and social change during the pivotal, often over-looked German colonial period (1890-1916). The work connects changes in the landscape order and biogeography closely with the beginning Christianization of the three groups on the mountains – the Chagga on Mt Kilimanjaro and the Meru and Arusha peoples of Mt Meru. The work tells a story which is ordered, green and Christian. It looks at both new ideas and plants brought by the Germans to their colony in East Africa. The introduced German-like order and the exotic plants changed the landscape during the short period of German rule. However, the changes taking root in the African societies, driven primarily by the introduction of Christianity, led to an acceptance and adaptation of these imports. Religious change is one of the most profound elements of social change and it deeply impacted the world view of the Chagga, Meru and Arusha peoples. Within all three groups, their worldview was closely tied to religion – there is no difference between the natural and social spheres nor the religious and secular worlds. In the interaction between the German and Africans, the ideas, use of plants and even Christianity became altered, Africanized, and finally propagated by the African groups, helping to create the new African/European landscape. This heritage lives on up till today, growing on the landscape, nurtured by the changes in the societies of the Chagga, Meru and Arusha peoples on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru.
Mountain Farmers
Author: Thomas T. Spear
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520206199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a rich, stimulating work, written in clear and compelling prose, that will appeal to scholars in a variety of disciplines."--Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya "Among the numerous contributions made by this book are its discussion of the politics of pseudo-traditionalism, its tracing of the emergence of a Christian leadership, and indeed its whole reconsideration of the significance of missions and Christianity."--James L. Giblin, author of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940
The Meru Land Case
Author: Kirilo Japhet
Publisher: Nairobi : East African Publishing House
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContentious Politics, Local Governance and the Self
Author: Tim Kelsall
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9789171065339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Governance Agenda is the framework that currently organizes the West’s relations with Africa. The present work is an attempt to see Governance through the lens of a contemporary, local history. The report analyzes three periods of contentious politics at local level in Tanzania and two multi-party elections. It provides a window on mismanagement in local government, it examines the intervention by national and local elites in district conflicts, and it points to the difficulties ordinary people face in holding their leaders to account. The argument of the report is that current approaches to the study of Governance overlook an essential ingredient for its potential success: namely, the sociological conditions in which forms of collective action conducive to improved political accountability become possible at a grassroots level. The analysis aims to show that economic diversification and multiple livelihoods have given rise to a reticular social structure in which individuals find it difficult to combine to hold their leaders to account. People have fragmented identities formed in networks of social relations, which impedes the emergence of strong collective identities appropriate to effective social movements.
Kilimanjaro
Author: Henry Stedman
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781873756652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new guide is written in the proven Trailblazer style--with detailed walking maps showing hiking times, points of interest, and gradients.
Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church
Author: Amy Stambach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 179360360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, institutionalism, and doctrine or orthodoxy. Pragmatic faith breaks down the lingering binary found in anthropological studies of Christianity between transcendental experience and pragmatic struggle, and between religious revival as rupture or continuity. Stambach and Kwayu analyze the instrumental use of religion in practice, as well as its socially mobilized potential for revelation and transformation. A key analytic agenda of this book is to illuminate how a church that retains the organizational and ritual forms of a European mission church "became" culturally localized over time and yet, paradoxically, also existed pre-colonially. Accordingly, this book offers detailed and ethnographically-grounded perspective on how leaders and laypeople affiliated with the Tanzanian Lutheran church connect the church with other significant institutions, not only the state and the government, but also descent groups, extended families, self-help groups, and existing civic organizations, in order to live meaningfully.
Custodians of the Land
Author: Gregory H. Maddox
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1996-04-15
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0821440055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFarming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century of the country’s post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. Yet there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions.
